IndieUI: Events - New Work for Mobile and More

The IndieUI Working Group today published a First Public Working Draft of IndieUI: Events 1.0 - Events for User Interface Independence. IndieUI defines a way for different user interactions to be translated into simple events and communicated to web applications. (For example, if a user wants to scroll down a page, they might use their finger on a touch screen, or click a scroll bar with a mouse, or use a scroll wheel, or say 'scroll down' with a voice command. With IndieUI, these are all sent to the web app as simply: scroll down.) IndieUI will make it easier for web applications to work in a wide range of contexts — different devices (such as mobile phones and tablets), different assistive technologies (AT), different user needs. With IndieUI, web application developers will have a uniform way to design applications that work for multiple devices and contexts. Comments on this Draft are encouraged by 22 February 2013. Learn more from the IndieUI Overview and the IndieUI: Events expands user interface interactions blog post; read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).